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716 places in the atlas, 54 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA–Phrygian) · EBA → Hittite → Phrygian → Lydian → Byzantine
Central Anatolian plateau capital lower town — Hittite karum to Phrygian burn.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Atlit Yam Well Extension North in Lycia Coast, Turkey is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian (615 BCE lib) → Hellenistic → Islamic · Halaf → Mitanni Hurrian → Middle & Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Neo-Assyrian library tell — 400 tablets of Gilgamesh (615 BCE Huzirina).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (333 BCE–700 CE peak 2nd c. CE) · Pisidian → Roman Imperial
Toros Pisidian city excavated by Waelkens 1990–, earthquake 540 CE disruption, Antonine cascade reconstructed 2014.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hittite Mopsos to Roman (1300 BCE–400 CE) · Mopsos/House of Mopsos, Roman Mamistra
Mopsuestia — Pyramidal Pyramid Road Station in Adana Province, Turkey is a Hittite Mopsos to Roman (1300 BCE–400 CE) ancient-city attributed to Mopsos/House of Mopsos, Roman Mamistra.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman (288 BCE – 262 CE) · Ptolemaic to Roman Ephesian
Curetes terrace with 36 m Arsinoeion rotunda and Octagon princess tomb.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Eblaite to Ottoman; University 8th–12th c. CE · Umayyad / Abbasid (Harran School)
Plain city excavated by Lloyd & Brice 1951–56 and recent Harran University, birthplace of al-Battani, Sabian moon temple underlying.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Olba kingdom then Byzantine
Kanytelis (Kanlıdivane) — Cilician Chasm City in Mersin Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Olba kingdom then Byzantine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hittite (c.1600–1180 BCE; peak 1500–1200 as weather-god city) · Hittite (Empire, weather-god cult)
Sarissa (Kuşaklı) on a windswept 1600-m ridge is the Hittite sacred city of the weather-god — planned Hittite city with 2-km wall, dam and granary, built under...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Seleucid to Roman (280 BCE–200 CE) · Hellenistic Olba kingdom, later Roman
Cilicia Tracheia priest-state excavated by Machatschek 1900s and recent Turkish, Olba inscriptions of Teukrid kings.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Medieval (peak EB III–Urartian) · Ubaid → Kura-Araxes → EBA Keban → Urartian → Medieval
Keban Dam salvage tell on the Euphrates (Karasu) near Baskil, excavated 1970s by Veli Sevin. Famed for EB III royal cist...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Hellenistic Macedonian foundation → Roman
Ulubey canyon city excavated by Turkish 2018–, Seleucid north gate intact, Demeter temple and canyon tombs.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Lycian–Roman (500 BCE–300 CE) · Lycian
Arykanda Eastern Terrace — Arif Extension in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian–Roman (500 BCE–300 CE) ancient-city attributed to Lycian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bagratuni Armenian Kingdom · Armenian
Medieval Armenian capital (961–1045) at peak 100,000 inhabitants, Bagratuni palaces, Cathedral of Ani (1001), Tigran Honents church with frescoes, double city walls.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Corycus or Korykos (Ancient Greek: Κώρυκος) was a town in ancient Ionia, near a mountain of the same name.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Corycus (Ancient Greek: Κώρυκος, romanized: Korykos) was a Greek port city in ancient Lycia. The location of the city has not been determined with certainty.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Classical to Byzantine (400 BCE – 1200 CE) · Aeolian Greek / Attalid Pergamene / Roman / Byzantine
Attalid royal harbour — 400 m closed basin 26 km from Pergamon, silted 2nd c. CE as Bakırçay delta prograded; magnetic walls at −1 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sardis Lydian Fortification North Gate in Manisa, Sart, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Pergamon Altar North Frieze Depot in Izmir, Bergama, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (4200–700 BCE), Melid proper c.1100–700 BCE · Late Chalcolithic palace → Neo-Hittite Luwian kingdom of Kammanu/Melid
Neo-Hittite Melid capital (Iron Age successor to Arslantepe palace, UNESCO 1622) on Malatya plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (classical antiquity to c.640 CE earthquake) · Pisidian → Hellenistic → Roman Imperial → Byzantine
Pisidian highland Roman city at 1,600 m with restored Antonine Nymphaeum and cliff theatre.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Medieval Islamic (c.2500 BCE–1271 CE Mongol sack; peak Old Assyrian karum and Sasanian–Umayyad) · Semitic Harranian → Assyrian → Babylonian (Nabonidus) → Parthian/Roman → Arab Sabian–Islamic
Moon-god Ehulhul city of Carrhae — Nabonidus terrace, Crassus battle plain and beehive-house university.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Canae (Ancient Greek: Κάναι; Turkish: Kane) was, in classical antiquity, a city in ancient Aeolis, on the island of Argennusa in the Aegean Sea off the modern Dikili Peninsula on the coast of…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (c.9000–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic
Cappadocian Neolithic tells (7 m high, 2 ha) in the Melendiz plain below Hasan Dağı obsidian sources. Excavated since 20...
